Home Truths: Domestic Interior in South African Collections

Location: South African National Gallery

From:
May 19, 2016
To:
October 23, 2016

Home Truths: Domestic Interiors from South African Collections, is a diverse multi-layered showcase of artworks ranging from historical paintings to contemporary pieces and installations. Domestic Interiors may also indicate a symbolic level. They generally represent the status of their occupants – who may also stand for their gender, their class, their culture, or even humankind as a whole. The subject of the Domestic Interior in art is so rich because the impulse to make a home, to find comfort within it and express oneself through it, is a defining feature of what it means to be fully human.